Bethany

@bbovard.bsky.social

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geek, educator, language learning enthusiast, instructional designer

photo of computer with a linguistics lecture open; to left of screen are port and chocolate treats, an International IPA chart is to the right and a historical linguistics problem about to be worked on as evidenced by the pen at the ready.
2 print pages with lots of scribbled handwriting plus one handwritten sheet of paper. The print pages have some ancient writing on them along with some transliteration and translation. One piece of ancient writing is being deciphered by hand, apparently.
A woman sits at her desk, surrounded by books. With one hand, she types and with the other she is using a brush to write hanzi. In the foreground on the desk is an e-ink tablet with handwritten Arabic and paper along with ink and a brush and Arabic writing.
suburban mountain town BBQ scene on a cul-d-sac with children and pets playing while the adults chat and cook
Feedback from AI reads "Good instinct - your sentence communicates the meaning, but avoids the specific grammar structure the exercise was targeting." in response to my attempt at a tag question instead of a the rhetorical question.
text on image reads "Translate into Chinese: 'Aren't you also studying Chinese now?'" Then some grammar points are listed followed by the statement: "This is exactly what you were struggling with earlier."
instructive infographic showing rote memorization versus meaningful repetition strategies for langauge learning
Template with sections for Retrieval Practice, Retrieval Correction, New Practice Notes, Key Terms & Definitions, and Resource List w/ Links. Also, there is a section to add date and note motivation and confidence levels.
Image of google Notebook showing list of resources, summary of first article resource and the audio podcast with interactive "join" feature active
ChatGPT window with prompt "I want you to act as a text based adventure game. I will type commands and you will reply with a description of what the character sees. I want you to only reply with the game output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. do not write explanations. do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. when i need to tell you something in english, i will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. my first command is wake up" Followed by a generated room description (dripping water, cold, stone floor...) along with exit and inventory items listed.
start screen showing score at top, title Dodge 'Em! in the middle, and a start button at the bottom
Welcome screen with words "Welcome to Genesis, a free text based fantasy game... and a "play" button